top of page
Click here to find out more about studying a PhD with us!

Current PhD Students

  1. Adam Caldwell (2024 with Atif Ahmad): Challenges in Cyber Defense for Developing Island Nations

  2. Mohammed Alsubaie (2024 with Atif Ahmad): Role of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in Decision Making

  3. Sam Pitruzzello (2024 with Atif Ahmad): Managing Cybersecurity in an Entrepreneurial Context

  4. Nimra Akram (2024 - with Atif Ahmad): Cyber Resilience and Industry 4.0

  5. Md Aktaruzzaman (2024 - with Atif Ahmad): Cybersecurity Management

  6. Jian Li (2023 - with Atif Ahmad): Cyber Strategy

  7. Hani Arab (2023 - with  Atif Ahmad, Mohammad Hammoudeh): Zero Trust

  8. Scott Ainslie (2021 - with Atif Ahmad, Dean Thompson): Cyber-threat Intelligence in Organizations

  9. Martin Chesbrough (2021 - with Michael Davern, Humza Naseer): Data-Driven Innovation 

  10. Jia Xu (2021 - with Humza Naseer): Modernizing Business Analytics Capability with DataOps

  11. Adam Davies (2017 - with George Buchanan): Information Classification

  12. Abid Shah (2017 - with Atif Ahmad): Use of Information Warfare In Organisations

  13. Mazino Onibere (2016 - Atif Ahmad): Information Security Strategy

Current Masters Students

  1. Siti Ulfah Lukman (S2, 2024 - with Sherah Kurnia and Atif Ahmad):  

PhD Completions

  1. Carlos Andres Aqudelo Serna (2015 - co-supervisor Atif Ahmad, Rachelle Bosua): Knowledge Leakage and BYOD (2021)

  2. Chee Kong Wong (2016 - co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Information Security Governance (2021)

  3. Stu Black (2019 - co-supervisor Michael Davern): Secondary Data Use in Analytics

  4. Mohammad Moniruzzaman (co-supervisors Sherah Kurnia, Alison Parkes): BI & SCM (2021)

  5. Ranko Cosic (co-supervisor Graeme Shanks): Stages of Maturity in Business Analytics Systems (2021)

  6. Craig Horne (co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Information Security Strategy (2019)

  7. Humza Naseer (co-supervisor Atif Ahmad, Graeme Shanks): Use of BI in Information Security Management (2019)

  8. Moneer Alshaikh (co-supervisors Atif Ahmad, Shanton Chang): - Information Security Management Practices in Organisations (2018)

  9. Jeb Webb (co-supervisor Atif Ahmad, Graeme Shanks): Security - Intelligence Gathering and Situational Awareness for security (2016)

  10. Mohamed Abd Elgabar  (co-supervisors Atif Ahmad, Andrew Lonie): Assessment of Digital Forensics Readiness at Business Organizations (2015)

  11. Michael Lim (co-supervisors Shanton Chang, Atif Ahmad): Defining the Relationship Between Information Security Culture and Information Security Practices (2012)

  12. Terrence Tan (co-supervisors Atif Ahmad, Tobias Ruighaver): Security Governance and Strategy Development: Improving the Process of Decision Making (2012).

Masters Completions (representative)

  1. Jian Li (2023: 25 point: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad),  Strategy and Cybersecurity Management: How applicable is Sun Tzu’s Art of War to Cybersecurity Management Practice in Organizations?

  2. Ruiyao Zhang (2021: 25 point: co-supervisors Libo Liu, Tingru Cui), Improving Crowd Funding using Analytics 

  3. Antra Arshad (2021: 25 point: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad), IT Security Outsourcing

  4. Mangesh Simon (2021: 50 point: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad), Understanding the CyberSecurity Job Shortage

  5. Ashley O’Neill (2021: 25 point: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad), Improving Incident Response Capability 

  6. Mark Dorsett (2020: 25 point: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad), Information Security Gaming

  7. Jia Xu (2020: 50 point: co-supervisors Humza Naseer), Business Analytics 

  8. Hibah Altukruni (2019: 50 point: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad, Moneer Alshaikh): Knowledge leakage

  9. Tanvi (S2, 2018: 25 point MIT: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad, Antonette Mendoza): Improving Information Security Behavior in Software Engineering Practices

  10. Abhineet (S1, 2018: 25 point MIT: co-supervisors Atif Ahmad): Dark Web as a Phenomenon

  11. Ritu (S2, 2016:25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Security Auditing

  12. Sam Pitruzzello (S1, 2016: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Securing Innovation

  13. Febby Johanes Wenji (S2, 2015: 50 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Social Media & Government

  14. Mazino Onibere (S2, 2015: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Role of Information Security Manager as a Strategist

  15. Daniel Arregui (S2, 2015: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): BYOD and Information Security in Organisations

  16. Lingjie Zhou (S2, 2015: 25 point MIT: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Information Security Risks from Distributed Computing

  17. Xingda Chen (S2, 2015: 25 point MIT: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Potential Use of RFID in Information Security Management

  18. Zheng Zheng (S2, 2015: 25 point MIT: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Emerging Technologies in Information Security

  19. Md Fuad Hassan (S1, 2015: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Maturity Models in Information Security

  20. Maunishkumar S. Patel (S1, 2015: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Enterprise Security Architecture

  21. Xavier Cannon (S2, 2014: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Rachelle Bosua): Internet of Things

  22. Harry Zurita (S2, 2014: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Assessment of Papers for Teaching

  23. Humza Naseer (S2, 2014: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Graeme Shanks): A Data Warehousing Architecture for Business Analytics

  24. Huiyi Yang (S1, 2014: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Privacy

  25. Thomas Hoang (S2, 2013: 50 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Secure Knowledge Management and Mobility

  26. Geethu George (S2, 2013: 25 point MIS:co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Security Policy: differences between public and private organisations

  27. Nicole Dial (S2, 2012: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Effect of Employee Behaviour on Security

  28. Huaying CHEN (S2, 2012: 50 point MSci(IS): co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): A Comparison of Security Curricula

  29. Kanu Khanna (S2, 2012: 25 Point): co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Literature in Information Systems Security 2008-2012

  30. FINN, Jarrod (S1, 2012: 25 point MIT: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Taxonomy of Information Security Management

  31. JAN, Mohammed (S1, 2012: 25 point MIS: co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): Information Security Management Literature Review

Honours Completions (representative)

  1. WONG, Ashley (co-supervisor Shanton Chang): (2010)

  2. CHAN, Damien (co-supervisor Shanton Chang, Atif Ahmad): Success Factors of Outsourcing IT Security. (2010)

  3. NG, Zhixian (co-supervisor Shanton Chang, Atif Ahmad): Information Security in SMEs.(2010)

  4. FERNANDO, Shehara (co-supervisor Shanton Chang): How can organisations encourage decision making when dealing with IT security risks? (2008)

  5. LEE, Jason (co-supervisor Atif Ahmad): How do organisations develop and implement information security practices?. (2008)

  6. LIM, Beng Yau (co-supervisor Shanton Chang): Information Security Policy Enforcement in Organizations. (2007)

  7. LIM, Belinda (co-supervisor Andrew Lonie): An analysis of Internet users at different technical level and their ability to mitigate the risk of malicious code. (2007)

  8. PANACCIO, Andrea (co-supervisor Shanton Chang): The impact of security practice on work related task completion. (2007)

  9. TRAN, Vi Quoc (co-supervisor Andrew Lonie): An Organisational Perspective on the Effectiveness of IT Security Outsourcing. (2007)

  10. LEARY, Mathew (co-supervisor Tobias Ruighaver): Security culture in organisations. (2006)

  11. WEI, David (co-supervisors Tobias Ruighaver, Andrew Lonie): Electronic Crime and Organisations. (2004)

  12. LING, Jonathan: Baseline Security Standards: Investigation of usage and compliance in Singapore Small-to-Medium Enterprises. (2002)

  13. CHIA, Pauline: A Framework for Developing an Appropriate Organisational Security Culture. (2001)
     

Find me at: 

View my google scholar profile
Go to my Linked in Page
Send me an email

Contact: 

Dr Sean Maynard
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Academic,
School of Computing and Information Systems, 
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3000, Australia
E: sean.maynard@unimelb.edu.au
bottom of page